Since it's good to be chosen as a recipient of favors, a competition arises to be the most generous partner around.
More accurately, a competition arises to appear to be the most generous partner around, since the favor-giver can't literally read minds or see into the future.
Just as UK citizens contribute to the NHS in return for access to it, French residents paying their social contributions get access to a world class healthcare system and some of the most generous unemployment benefits around.
Though the Ivy League schools, considered among the most competitive, tend not to offer scholarship money for academic achievement, if you get in and qualify for financial aid, several have the most generous aid packages around.
It's odd to say this about a book so existentially pessimistic, but it's one of the most generous literary satires to come around in quite a while.
It makes a certain perverse sense that Mr. Bridges, one of the most generous and understated actors around, should be so good at playing a narcissist.
They are waging it on behalf of the aristocracy, but a minority of aristocrats (around 30% by the most generous estimates) don't consider themselves conservatives.
"Our legal aid system will remain one of the most generous in the world at around £1.5bn per year after our reforms have been completed.
That's why we made sure it will remain one of the most generous systems in the world, at around £1.5bn a year, after reform.
As a result, there aren't many; the most generous estimates put their number at around 20. Obviously, trying to get six billion people to marry a group of 20 individuals presents problems.
